Marble Forms – Little Gerla & Introverso by Italian Designer Moreno Ratti
Here we highlight the fantastic work of Italian designer Moreno Ratti, who has dedicated his design career to working with marble and seeing what functional uses it can have.
Allusion to the Imperfect – Unique Fibreglass Designs by Imperfettolab
Owned by Verter Turroni and Emanuela Ravelli, at their workshop they produce unique furniture and sculptural objects that make you consider the relationship between nature and design itself.
Vases with Stones – Unique Vessels Produced by Martin Azua & Marc Vidal
Martin Azua and Marc Vidal have combined to create a series of vases that have been deformed by the weight of a stone, showcasing nature and craft converging in to one.
Sleek Elegant Shapes – Sculptural Glass Vases by Glassblower Devin Burgess
Devin Burgess is an American artist and maker who is situated in Greensboro, Vermont and works with hand-blown and surface-treated glass using subtle colours and delicate shapes.
Monumental Simplicity – Wheel Thrown Stoneware Vases by Sara Paloma
Inspired by the urban industrial landscape of Los Angeles, potter Sara Paloma hand-throws these fantastic tear drop shaped vases out of stoneware and porcelain on the wheel.
Chapeau and Vases Designed by Milia Seyppel
Designer Milia Seyppel has a way of designing ceramics like architecture, structural with the use of sharp edges and straight lines. Here we showcase two collections for Karakter & Lyngby.
Rina Menardi’s Handmade Stoneware
Rina has been experimenting with ceramics since 1980. One source of inspiration is nature itself, using a combination of block colour and clean lines to create pure form.
Finnish Studio Potter Erna Aaltonen
Finnish potter Erna Aaltonen builds these fantastic vessels by hand, using coarse stoneware clay for the body and oxides rubbed on the surface to generate texture and pattern.
Flower Vases by Satoshi Nishikawa
These flower vases by Japanese artist Satoshi Nishikawa really are profound. He uses primitive clay and sculpting methods to create these earthy vessels, contemporary and characterful.
Ceramics by Justine Allison
Often you find out a lot about a creative by their 'about' or 'bio' page, I like to hear what they have to say and what their inspirations are, whether it be as a maker or a designer. Through all these years finding and sourcing inspiration for the site I have come across many common traits that con
Vases and Tableware by Japanese Maker Keiichi Tanaka
One individual that I’ve had my beady little eye on is Japanese maker Keiichi Tanaka, who I happened to write about last year alongside fellow Japanese creator Aya Omachi. So as I was searching for more information, also hoping that I’d run across new work I hadn’t seen before, it seemed to be
Bowls, Bottles and Vases by Victoria Morris
Often I stumble across inspiration randomly whilst searching for individuals that we could represent in the shop. Before we opened I would have to go looking for, or sometimes pushing, a specific subject, which didn't always lead to an interesting article or post. Saying that, now I often get led to